The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-03-05
OVER THE STATE.

Liabilities, $4,000; assets, $4,000.
Dickson Press: The day is not far
disiaut when Dickson county will be
cla>sel among the richest counties in
the state.
Tom w. Neal, editor of the Dy-
ersburg Gazette. has been elected
President of the DyerSburg q Mis-
>issippi River Packet Co.
James Moore and daughter, Miss
Bertha May Moore, who killed Hem
ry Allen, are in Jail at Memphis,
having been committed without bail.
A man named Epps shot and killed
Mr. Newman and Miss Weaver, be.
tween Kingston and lockwood, Roane
county aud escaped. No cause is as
signed.
V V. Staples, juror in the God
win case, has beer indicted by the
Shelby county grand jury for perjury,
having sworn that he was a house
holder.
Gov. Robert L. Taylor pardoned
Robert Barbea Of Weakley county
out of the penitentiary, where he was
serving Il twenty-five years sentence
for murder.
Rogersville Herald: Hon. A. A.
Taylor has bought the Beckner farm,
near sample, Hamblen county, and it
is said will have it greatly improved,
and perhaps in the near future be-
come citizen of that county.
The little child of Mr.. S. P. Alex
ander, aged 2 years, living in the 18th
district, Weakley county, was drowned
last Friday in wash tub. 1t was
out playing in the yard and was found
in the tub by brother 8 years old.
Bristol Courier: Mr.. A. q. Gregg,
writing to the Manufacturers Record,
says: 81 have decided to establish a
mandatory for the production of
agricultural implements in Norris
town, the only one of the kind south
of the Ohio river"
These is now an organized moves
ment on foot in Knoxville to establish
an East Tennessee bureau of minerals,
mining, immigration, etc., with stock
enough to fully sustain the enterprise
and absolutely independent of the 9TH
er divisions Of the state.
Athenian: Col. J. j. Turner saws
that between Gallatin and the Cincin
natl Southern railroad-a distance o.
$50 r'iles-there is but one saloon
From \ tensive acquaintance
through that territory he is SURE
that prohibition will carry that par
Of the state with but little opposition
Nashville Union: There are
something more than 100 weekly
newspapers published in Tennessee
The American finds that nine out o
these, of the democratic persuasion
do not support Gov. Taylor, and i
rings the changes on these with won
1erful celebrity. The American il
Aocking with microscopic minority
Lebanon is excited over the mystic
rious disappearance of W. A. Lewis
a prominent business man, who lef
FIVE weeks ago for Florida, since whicI
time nothing has been heard from
him. His relatives have written t
the place where he intended gOiD
and received the answer that he ha
not been there. He carried severa
thousand dollars and it is feared tina
he hssa u' let with foul play
&c enator John Sherman, of Ohio
proposes to make southern tour 500
after Congress ajjourns in the intere'
of his candidacy for President. H
will visit Nashville, Chattanoog,
Atlanta, Birmingham and perhaE
Memphis. A petition was sent frOl
Nashville, signed by every repubhca
member of the Legislature, asking hi
to visit Nashville before the legisl,
ture sdjOurns. Preparations are bein
made to give him grand banque
He will speak on the issues Of the da!
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